overhead to individual jobs. At the beginning of the year, the company expected to incur the following:
Manufacturing overhead costs $280,000
Direct labour cost 500,000
Machine hours 30,000
At the end of the year, the company had actually incurred the following:
Direct labour cost $920,000
Depreciation on manufacturing plant and equipment 250,000
Property taxes on plant 35,000
Sales salaries 12,000
Delivery drivers' wages 8,000
Plant janitors' wages 10,000
Machine hours 25,500 hours
Required:
1. Compute Sambell's indirect cost allocation rate based on labour cost.
2. Compute Sambell's indirect cost allocation rate based on machine hours.
3. How much overhead was allocated during the year if the allocation base was direct labour cost?
4. How much manufacturing overhead was incurred during the year?